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How did you propose/your DP propose to you?

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HowAmYa · 14/12/2023 01:34

So DP has started to look for rings (exciting!)
Its got me feeling all nostalgic and loved up. I love seeing propsals online but they are all so staged looking. Please share your lovely proposal stories!

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RamblinRosie · 14/12/2023 03:00

We’d been living together for about 2 years. He came home from a 3 week work trip to Egypt, next morning, he knelt by the bed and said “will you marry me?” Next morning we went out and bought a ring, second hand, worth about £500 now. I still love it.
Married 42 years.

Simonjt · 14/12/2023 04:58

The place where wet had just gained a license to conduct weddings, I joked that we should get married there so my boyfriend asked if it was available on our anniversary, again as a bit of a joke. The next day we were both like “shall we book it” neither of us were entirely sure (after all there wasn’t a grown up around the make the decision), we did book it and it tooo us maybe two weeks to realise that shit, we’re getting married and we accidentally tricked ourselves into doing it.

Rosiiee · 14/12/2023 05:05

I proposed in our garden on a summer night. We’d had a few glasses of sparkling, music playing, nice warm day.

He wanted to propose with a ring too. So a few weeks later he proposed on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean.

Only married 2 years so far 😊

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Sholkedabemus · 14/12/2023 05:09

We were just reaching the end of a fabulous, amazing, sailing holiday. We’d just eaten a meal out and he casually said, “we could get married, if you fancy it”. The holiday had been wonderful and this, not very romantic proposal, was the icing on the cake. We chose a solitaire diamond ring together, when we returned home.

TheSandgroper · 14/12/2023 05:21

I told him I had seen a ring.

TBF, some months previously I had told him that I wasn’t moving to the UK for him without getting married so he knew he had thinking to do. We bought the ring and we took it to a park and he asked formally.

Mumlifedc · 14/12/2023 05:41

I told him I wouldn't live together without getting married, he said let's pick a ring then. Not romantic at all but still happy together 18 years later

Christmastreelights22 · 14/12/2023 06:06

We were on holiday in the Maldives and he booked an evening meal for us on the beach. He asked the hotel to write 'will you marry me' in coral on the table. Unfortately they got it a bit wrong and it said 'will you merry me' instead!

How did you propose/your DP propose to you?
TheRealProfessorYaffle · 14/12/2023 06:12

We were having a cup of tea, and we thought it might be quite a good idea, so we decided to book a date at the register office (five weeks later) and then married. Super practical, like I am, and we've been together 20 years next year. I think it's romantic because our romance is shown in taking the bins out so the other person doesn't need to, or making sure that they get the better bit of cake, or whatever. It's my fairytale.

CumbrianYorkshireHybrid · 14/12/2023 06:29

I can't actually remember but he gave me my engagement ring for my Birthday three months after we started seeing each other. We married six months later.
Around five years later we were out celebrating New Year. Walking home in the snow he got down on one knee and proposed. I told him not to be ridiculous. He replied that he wanted me to know he'd still ask me at that time, which was very sweet. Periodically, over the years he's repeated the question. We married in 1995 and next year DC1 will walk down the aisle. That feels a bit surreal.

ShoesoftheWorld · 14/12/2023 06:34

My exact words: 'We may as well get married, then.' Which we did, 6 months later, 23 years ago. Impossibly unromantic but we are very, very happy.

HeraSyndulla · 14/12/2023 06:54

In Richmond Park, one summers evening, 20 years ago. We’d only just graduated.

Where has all that time gone - crazy !.

Rocknrollstar · 14/12/2023 06:55

We were living together, back when most people didn’t. I got home from work and he had a letter in his hand and he said ‘We have to move so I think we should get married’. That was a lifetime ago. How one of you proposes or how you get married isn’t what is important. It’s the who that counts.

Hellocatshome · 14/12/2023 06:56

New Years Eve in Time Square New York straight after the ball drop. Not as romantic as it sounds as we were freezing, couldn't move as in the middle of a huge crowd and I was absolutely desperate for a wee. Still makes a good story though.

DustyLee123 · 14/12/2023 06:57

He didn’t propose, we just agreed to get married.

Needmorelego · 14/12/2023 06:58

"I've booked a day off so we can go to the town hall and get the license"

Xiaoxiong · 14/12/2023 07:08

15 years ago, in the kitchen while I was making nachos and wearing a towel on my head. He'd planned to do it that evening (NYE, fireworks etc) but I'd been called urgently into the office and messed up his plans. He said something terrible like "we have to talk, I have something to tell you" and I nearly gutted him with the knife as I whipped around as I thought he was breaking up with me. Then he said "can you put the knife down? I'm not breaking up with you, I'm proposing!"

JohnWickAteMyHamster · 14/12/2023 07:20

We were on holiday for our first year anniversary (of first date) and drank a lot of sangria, started talking about our friends and who we would invite to a wedding. Woke up and found a napkin with a guest list written on it 😂 had a "does this mean we are engaged?" conversation and decided yes it was what we both wanted.

Went ring shopping when we got back from holiday, and officially told people about 3 weeks after the Napkin Event 😁

Just celebrated 20 years together!

blackfluffycat · 14/12/2023 07:22

I text asking if we could get engaged as I was pregnant and he said yes go get a ring. Shane really.

simolias · 14/12/2023 07:26

We had talked about our future, where we saw ourselves ie marriage, children etc right at the beginning of our relationship so once we were living together we had already agreed that if that worked out we would get married. It sounds really clinical but it wasn't.

He proposed on a Sunday morning, we were just chatting in bed having a lazy morning and he said I want to spend the rest of my life with you. No going down on one knee, just cuddling. We went ring shopping the next weekend. I didn't tell anyone until I had the ring. That was 27 years ago. Married for 24 years, incredibly happy.

2chocolateoranges · 14/12/2023 07:28

He had been working away for a few months, came home , went on a date to our favourite restaurant and he told me how much he had missed me, how much he loved me and asked me to Marry him.

thankfully no grand gestures in front of loads of people, no down on one knee.

been married 23 years.

diefledermaus · 14/12/2023 07:36

We were just sitting on the sofa at home talking about buying a house together. He said "shall we just go all in and get married at the same time? We know we're in this forever anyway" and that was that. We went to buy a ring a couple of weeks later and that was that.

I loved that he didn't make a big deal of it - I'd be really uncomfortable with a big proposal! Different strokes for different folks but it was perfect for me.

childrensward · 14/12/2023 07:46

Christmas morning 2017, we had been together 7 years, in our pjs in the living room! We have been married 9 month now

Spencer0220 · 14/12/2023 08:06

He decided he wanted to ask. Tried to get down on one knee. Because he's visually impaired and physically disabled, completely misjudged it and fell over my wheelchair.

Asked through a fit of hysterical laughter, whilst I was desperately trying to keep him from going face first on the floor.

That pretty much sums us up and I wouldn't have it any other way

C1N1C · 14/12/2023 08:11

I waited until she was ill and hallucinating, so she couldn't say no.

DilemmaDelilah · 14/12/2023 08:40

It was Christmas and we were at my mum's, as were both my siblings and their partners. The day before, my sister and her partner had announced their engagement, my partner and I were sitting alone in the kitchen talking about it and I said something along the lines of 'we could do that too if you like'. He liked - we are married. We had to keep our engagement secret for ages though as I didn't want to steal my sister's thunder, however when they still hadn't planned a date 18 months later we went public.